Item #31427 The Origin of the Graces. Illustrated with the Original Copperplate Engravings after the Designs of C.N. Cochin. Mlle. Dionis DUSEJOUR, Charles Nicholas Cochin.

The Origin of the Graces. Illustrated with the Original Copperplate Engravings after the Designs of C.N. Cochin.

London. Vizetelly & Co. N.d. c.[1880's]. Hardcover. sm4to, 25cm, 63p., limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this being #20, 63p., on hand made paper, with 6 copper engraved plates, tissue guards, original quarter brown cloth backed boards with raised floral decorated, some slight wear on the edges, blue black endpapers, very good to fine (IL). ~ One of a series of English translations of late 18th century French illustrated volumes. Elegantly illustrated by Charles Nicholas Cochin (1715 1790) with an added biography of the artist. Attractively bound. Item #31427

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